<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>   
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>   
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:out value="jstl core formatted date" default="put some text here">

</c:out>
 <br/>
 
 <c:set var="now" value="<%=new java.util.Date()%>" />
 
<fmt:formatDate value="${now}" type="both"  timeStyle="long" dateStyle="long" />
<p>This is my message: ${message}</p>
</body>
</html>